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June 23rd, 2015

At the Saturday night dinner, fans were presented with a special treat: a video featuring Megatron as voiced by Frank Welker announcing the winners of the Hall of Fame for 2015! Hasbro has now put the video online, check it out below:

This past weekend fans gathered in St. Charles for the annual Transformers convention: Botcon! I've been reporting reporting most of the weekend but now I've written up my full report from the event along with links to galleries and my Twitter posts! Check out my Botcon 2015 report.

June 22nd

According to a Facebook post by Michael Andre Cappiello, grandson of Earl Norem, the prolific artist passed away on June 19 at the age of 92. Norem was known for his beautiful painted art style which he brought to such properties as He-Man, Conan, Marvel Comics and of course, Transformers. He as the illustrator behind such books as "Battle for Cybertron" and "The Great Car Rally".

June 21st

At Botcon 2015 I had the distinct honor of being part of a panel of prominent fans from "Transformers" fandom. Led by Ryan Yzquierdo of Seibertron.com, the panel talked about the "old days" of Transformers fandom all the way up until now. Thanks to Jason Lukis (also a panel member) we now have video of the panel. Check it out!

The Toys R Us Australia web site has listed a new figure for order: Megatronus! While the character has been seen in the mobile app game and in Legion Class, this is the first "sighting" of this 5 Step Changer figure. Here's the description on the site:

I've uploaded photos of the products revealed in the Hasbro panel to my gallery of Hasbro's booth! Check these photos out to see pics of the Combaticons, new Autobot Combiner Wars figures and Sky lynx! Also in the album are "Robots in Disguise" figure announcements.